Disney 2010: Day 9

It took us a while to recover from being awake over 24 hours in an attempt to see the space shuttle launch, but we were finally up and around, and ready for lunch by 2pm.  The first thing we did was go check out the “Most Unique McDonald’s in the World” right down the street.  It’s definitely unique.  The entire inside is a huge arcade and they have amazing stuff on the menu, like:

Very neat but very noisy, so we had lunch at a Chili’s that was down the street.  After lunch we played mini-golf at my favorite course, where  John beat me by 9.

We wandered around some after that, looking for reading material to pass the time before leaving for the shuttle launch attempt and for our wait at the airport.  We also stopped by the model train exhibit, but John didn’t want to go in because he’s not into G-scale.  When we got back to our room around 6pm, we had this waiting for us:

Mark, Geoff and Eric had gone to our house to shovel our driveway; but when they arrived the found that our neighbor, also Mark, had already done it.  So they sent us this photo instead.  We still can’t believe that our neighbor spent all that time shoveling, and that we had friends who were prepared to do it too.

We watched the Superbowl through the end of the 3rd quarter and then went to get some dinner around 9pm at a tapas restaurant that I love to go to when I’m down here on business.  And we napped some more too.

And then Lee and his dad picked us up at 12am for launch attempt #2.  Short story is:  yes, we got to see it launch at 4:14am.  It lit up the whole sky like sunrise x2.  Here’s a video I took with my cheap little “point and shoot” camera.

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